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Jandek, The Rolling Calf and more join the bill for the Gateshead festival

The third album by performer-producer Jay Som is a sweep of touching intimacy and riotous energy, finds Jo Higgs

Lo-fi approaches define Martin Newell's oeuvre, so it only seems natural that the cinematic relic honouring him should follow suit, finds Neil Fox

The new project's first album references Marcell Jankovic's 1981 animated fantasy of the same name

The Rome trio brought their avant-garde punk to the Oxfordshire festival earlier this month

Photo by Erez Avissar Odd Future kingpin Tyler, the Creator, who's about to release his sophomore album, has added more dates to his international spring solo tour. He'll also be joined by Earl Sweatshirt for a string of shows. Wolf, Tyler's new album, is out on April 2 through Odd Future Records. Dates below. Tyler, the Creator: 03-15 Pittsbu […]

Photos by Trent Maxwell. Above: Trash Talk. For all of our 2013 SXSW coverage, head here.  There were blues skies and warm spring breezes for a packed house at Pitchfork's Show No Mercy Day Party at House of Vans at Mohawk on Wednesday. Not exactly the most metal weather, but it didn't matter. The afternoon kicked off with Brooklyn industrial doom […]

Photo by Erez Avissar "Hi Austin. Fuck SXSW. There… I said it. Here, the music comes last. 5 minute set-up, no sound check, 15 minute set. The 'music' element is all a front, it's the first thing to be compromised. Corporate money everywhere but in the hands of the artists, at what is really just a glorified corporate networking party. Dr […]

Photo by Erez Avissar/Weird Magic. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here. The Leeds-based melodic punk band Eagulls are not the sort of group that seems to be comfortable inside the corporate shit-show of SXSW. (Revisit their handwritten blog postfrom January, in which they decry the music industry and "all beach bands sucking each others' d […]

TMZ reports that Lil Wayne was taken to a Cedars-Sinai hospital in L.A. on Tuesday night after apparently suffering "multiple seizures" following a music-video shoot. He was apparently released a few hours later and is "doing much better now." This comes after multiple hospitalizations last year, which were also pegged to seizures.